Academy Hill Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located in

Stroudsburg Stroudsburg is a borough in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It lies within the Poconos region, approximately five miles (8 km) from the Delaware Water Gap at the confluence of the Brodhead, McMichaels and Pocono Creeks in Northeastern Pennsyl ...

Monroe County, Pennsylvania Monroe County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in Northeastern Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 168,327. Its coun ...

. Bordered by Sarah, 8th, Fulmer, and 5th streets, the district encompasses 180 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of Stroudsburg. The district was added to the

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in 1988.

History and architectural features

The oldest community in Pennsylvania's Pocono Region, Stroudsburg was incorporated as a

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in 1815 and then designated as the county seat at the time Monroe County was created in 1836. It is also the site of multiple historic homes, the majority of which date from the mid-19th to early 20th century, and which are representative of a number of popular architectural styles of this period, including

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

Bungalow A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is either single-story or has a second story built into a sloping roof (usually with dormer windows), and may be surrounded by wide verandas. The first house in England that was classified as a b ...

American Craftsman American Craftsman is an American domestic architectural style, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, which included interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts, beginning in the last years of the 19th century. Its ...

, Queen Anne, North Cat, Gavel End Bungalow, Northern Removed Colonial, and West Gate Bungalow. Eight of the buildings pre-date 1858. ''Note:'' This includes

Listing of this district on the National Register of Historic Places

In November 1988, Janet W. Foster, the associate director of Acroterion in Morristown, New Jersey, completed the nomination form to secure this placement of the Academy Hill Historic District on the

. The district was then officially added to the National Register later that same year.Academy Hill Historic District, in "National Register of Historic Places; Notification of Pending Nominations," in ''Federal Register'', Vol. 54, No. 242, December 19, 1989, p. 51955.

References

External links

Brick Queen Anne
Academy Hill Historic District, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Waymarking.com, retrieved online September 28, 2019. *

" Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Monroe County Historical Association, retrieved online September 28, 2019. {{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Queen Anne architecture in Pennsylvania Colonial Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Houses in Monroe County, Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Monroe County, Pennsylvania